Small changes in teaching: Giving them a say
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
Teaching research
HERDSA 2016: Best paper prize
byDr Kate Thomson (Faculty of Health Sciences), Dr Jen Scott Curwood (Faculty of Education and Social Work) and Associate Professor Martin Tomitsch (Faculty of Architecture,…
Small changes in teaching: making connections
byIn a series of articles in The Chronicle from his book “Small Teaching: Everyday Lessons From the Science of Learning“, James M. Lang presents simple and practical…
53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byThe pick this month from Graham Gibbs’ blog is Idea 33 – that ‘motivating students is not magic‘. The end of a long semester seems…
Student engagement – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn idea 42, Gibbs argues that student engagement has now become too slippery a concept, and that in invoking it, we need to be…
Class size matters – 53 Powerful Ideas All Teachers Should Know About
byIn idea 19, Graham Gibbs revisits the issue of ‘class sizes’ in universities arguing that cohort size is strongly negatively correlated with student performance. In…